Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Light pipe with alignment structures
- Patent Title (中): 具有对准结构的光管
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Application No.: US10815012Application Date: 2004-03-31
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Publication No.: US07228051B2Publication Date: 2007-06-05
- Inventor: Ronald S. Cok , John N. Border , Gary R. Glozer
- Applicant: Ronald S. Cok , John N. Border , Gary R. Glozer
- Applicant Address: US NY Rochester
- Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
- Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Rochester
- Agent Andrew J. Anderson
- Main IPC: G02B6/00
- IPC: G02B6/00 ; G02B6/10

Abstract:
A light-conductive pipe is described comprising a body of light-conductive material having an input face having a first cross sectional perimeter at a first end and an output face having a second cross sectional perimeter at a second end, and at least one integral alignment feature projecting from the body providing a third cross-sectional perimeter larger than at least one of the first or second perimeters of the faces, wherein the projecting alignment feature does not have a surface in the same plane as either face. Also described are integral linear arrays of multiple light-conductive pipes, two-dimensional arrays formed from multiple aligned individual light-conductive pipes or stacked integral linear arrays, and expanding optical faceplates formed from such two-dimensional arrays. Tiled flat-panel display systems may be formed from a plurality of modules aligned in an array, each module comprising a flat-panel display having a plurality of pixels and an expanding optical faceplate formed from such two-dimensional arrays.
Public/Granted literature
- US20050220438A1 Light pipe with alignment structures Public/Granted day:2005-10-06
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